Tips while Weaning off prednisone

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone,

I have started the diet for the past few weeks but did not do a

formal " intro " diet because I have normal BM's due to being on 15 mg

prednisone. I am tapering within the next few months, and I am

wondering if anyone here has has any experience introducing the diet

while tapering and when to know if a food is not " tolerated " or if it

is just a decrease in the medication. I am willing to go back and do

the intro diet for a week if that's what is recommended. Any email or

posting about you or your child's experiences would be fantastic, I

can use all the tips possible.

Thanks,

UC 3 months

SCD 1 week

[Guest guest]

Our experience was the opposite - we were weaning off prednisone when my son

flared - we went back up to 20mg of prednisone with little or no effect, but

after 3 wks SCD he started having normal bm's. But a friend of mine here

was considered steroid dependent at 40mg of prednisone until she started SCD

and she managed to wean herself off the meds after a couple of months on

SCD. Once you get down to 10mg I would highly recommend only weaning 2-2.5

mg at a time. My ped gi allowed us to do that the last time we had to wean

off and it made the weaning a lot easier for us.

Robbie

Tips while Weaning off prednisone

> Hi everyone,

> I have started the diet for the past few weeks but did not do a

> formal " intro " diet because I have normal BM's due to being on 15 mg

> prednisone. I am tapering within the next few months, and I am

> wondering if anyone here has has any experience introducing the diet

> while tapering and when to know if a food is not " tolerated " or if it

> is just a decrease in the medication. I am willing to go back and do

> the intro diet for a week if that's what is recommended. Any email or

> posting about you or your child's experiences would be fantastic, I

> can use all the tips possible.

>

> Thanks,

>

> UC 3 months

> SCD 1 week

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> For information on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, please read the book

> _Breaking the Vicious Cycle_ by Elaine Gottschall and read the following

> websites:

> http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info

> and

> http://www.pecanbread.com

>

>

[Guest guest]

,

Our daughter is 4 years old with crohns. We started the pred and

diet at the same time back in October. About 10 days after she was

weaned off the drug she started having 1/2 hard 1/2 soft stools.

Still just twice a day but the end of each stool was not formed. She

is intollerant of Milk and could not handle the yogurt or the cheese

when off the pred. She couldn't handle the fresh fruit or peas

either as it turned out. We went to the intro diet ommitted the

cheese and yogurt and started doing the basics as in:

Hamburger

Eggs

Bananas

Steak

Chicken Thighs in Tomato Juice

Chicken Soup Recipe

Bananna pancakes

Applesauce

cooked purreed squash

Freeda Multi Vitamin

Those things firmed back up her stools and she went twice a day.

We're now trying to introduce cooked purreed french cut beans.

Eventually we will try the yogurt again in some form.

Brent Father of Ella age 4 SCD 3 mo. Crohns

>

> Our experience was the opposite - we were weaning off prednisone

when my son

> flared - we went back up to 20mg of prednisone with little or no

effect, but

> after 3 wks SCD he started having normal bm's. But a friend of

mine here

> was considered steroid dependent at 40mg of prednisone until she

started SCD

> and she managed to wean herself off the meds after a couple of

months on

> SCD. Once you get down to 10mg I would highly recommend only

weaning 2-2.5

> mg at a time. My ped gi allowed us to do that the last time we had

to wean

> off and it made the weaning a lot easier for us.

>

> Robbie

>

>

> Tips while Weaning off prednisone

>

>

> > Hi everyone,

> > I have started the diet for the past few weeks but did not do a

> > formal " intro " diet because I have normal BM's due to being on 15

mg

> > prednisone. I am tapering within the next few months, and I am

> > wondering if anyone here has has any experience introducing the

diet

> > while tapering and when to know if a food is not " tolerated " or

if it

> > is just a decrease in the medication. I am willing to go back and

do

> > the intro diet for a week if that's what is recommended. Any

email or

> > posting about you or your child's experiences would be fantastic,

I

> > can use all the tips possible.

> >

> > Thanks,

> >

> > UC 3 months

> > SCD 1 week

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > For information on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, please read

the book

> > _Breaking the Vicious Cycle_ by Elaine Gottschall and read the

following

> > websites:

> > http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info

> > and

> > http://www.pecanbread.com

> >

> >